LSO / Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Magdalena Kožená Anna
Andrew Staples father
Alessandro Fisher brother
Ross Ramgobin brother
Florian Boesch mother
London Symphony Orchestra
Programm
Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
interval
Robert Schumann: Symphony no. 2 in C major, Op. 61
Sir Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kožená and Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins. Pride is for the wealthy – if you want to succeed, you put it aside and give them what they want. When times are tough, there’s only one way to get ahead; Bertolt Brecht knew that back in 1933, and Kurt Weill set it to music that stings, even through every fabulously memorable tune.
This is The Seven Deadly Sins, born in the dying days of Weimar Berlin, premiered in Paris and yet somehow just as urgent in 2022. Magdalena Kožená sings Weill’s insidiously catchy melodies, music that evokes a world of satire, sleaze and naked self-indulgence. Social comment has never been so shamelessly entertaining.
We end with Schumann’s most personal (some might say greatest) symphony, which includes musical love notes to his wife Clara that Schumann threaded throughout.